The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 21
At length, however, he saw a sort of landing-place, where was a post for mooring a boat, and at the top of the post was a sign-board with words painted upon it:
Who acts: E, post · What happens: see, be, moor, paint, sort · To what, where: sort, length, post, boat, sign board, top
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (E, post), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 saw | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sort | det |
| 9 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 landing | punct |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sort | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 post | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 post | advmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 post | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 post | det |
| 18 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | appos |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 mooring | mark |
| 20 | mooring | moor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 post | acl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boat | det |
| 22 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mooring | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 board | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 board | cc |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 board | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 post | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 post | det |
| 30 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | nmod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 board | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 board | det |
| 33 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 board | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 sign | punct |
| 35 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 words | case |
| 37 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 board | nmod |
| 38 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 words | acl |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 painted | obl |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | E | a sort of landing place | length | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is a | past | a post | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | moor | gerund | a post not said here | a boat | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme boat=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a sign board | the top of the post | with words | tree rules | |||
| 5 | paint | participle | words not said here | word | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon it=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sort | landing place | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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